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October 2026 Release - Passkey Login, Background Check Improvements, Advanced Hiring Funnels and more!

Written by Lia Bartosz

Continue the "Less admin, more hiring" trend with our October 2026 release - between automation, integration, and security improvements, you've got a lot of great time savers at your fingertips!


General

Passkey Login

Say goodbye to typing passwords and two-factor codes each time you try to access the platform! 👋

With a passkey, you can log in using Face ID, Touch ID, Windows Hello, your phone or a password manager. It's quicker - and safer - because a passkey can't be phished or reused on another website.

If you don't see the option to set up a passkey, get in touch with us to get it enabled.


Background Checks

View Checks in Onboarding

There's now a Checks page in Onboarding, where you can order checks, review results, and record decisions for new starters.

This is the same information that lives in the Recruitment side of the platform, so you can view and manage this in either place!

Improved Statuses

Once you've made a decision on an order, it now shows as Decided, so you can see at a glance what's already been handled.

Reason for Cancelled Checks

If a provider cancels a check, we'll now tell you why. That way you'll know straight away whether to re-order, try an alternative, or get in touch with the candidate.

Manual ID Verification for DBS Checks

DBS checks that need a manual identity check can now be moved along without leaving Pinpoint.

UK Credit Checks

We’ve launched UK Credit Checks as part of the Pinpoint Checks feature. To order it, configure it in a new or existing package.

This check uses the applicant's name, date of birth, and UK address history to locate the relevant credit file, and may surface tradelines, bankruptcies, public records, and collections information.


Candidates

Identify Gaps in Employment History

Turn on employment gap explanations to ask candidates to give details on any gaps in their employment history before they submit their application. You can ask a reviewer to approve the section to align with your hiring practices, too.

Tags - Rename and Retire

🔒 This is an early access feature. Get in touch with your CSM to enable it.

Tags are now ready to evolve with your practices and processes.

Rename a tag to update it wherever it's used, with no re-tagging needed! Or retire a tag you no longer need, to see it disappear from pickers and filters while your past records keep it.


Insights

Advanced Hiring Funnel

🔒 This is an early access feature. Get in touch with your CSM to enable it.

Ever wondered where you're losing great candidates? The new Advanced Hiring Funnel widget in the Insights Hub shows you.

You'll see how many candidates reached each step, how many dropped off, your conversion rates, how long each step takes, and where candidates came from and ended up.

Spot something odd? Click any number to see the candidates behind it.

Reporting improvements

We also made a couple of quality of life improvements for reporting:

  • Candidate custom fields - You can now be add candidate custom fields as columns when you build a custom candidate report.

  • Filter by Channel Detail - Want to know exactly where your candidates came from? You can now filter candidate reports by the specific source behind a channel, like a referrer's name, a job board or a campaign tag.


Integrations

Sage People - Direct

You can now send new hires straight to Sage People in seconds. A single click will create their Team Member, Employment, Salary and Bonus records and attaches their documents - all using your own Sage People fields, custom ones included.

Interpreter Intelligence

If you hire interpreters, you can now send hired candidates straight to Interpreter Intelligence as new contacts to keep the process moving smoothly, without fumbling with import spreadsheets.

Pinpoint API - Conditional Questions

Building your own application or onboarding forms? They can now ask follow-up questions in exactly the same way Pinpoint does.

Integration Stage Actions

We've added new stage actions, so candidates get their next step the moment they move stage. No more remembering to send things manually.

You can set these up for:


Interviews

Audio Only Questions in One-Way Video Interviews

Not everyone loves being on camera, and that's okay!

You can now give those candidates the option to record a voice answer instead, or in addition to by mixing audio and video questions in the same interview to get a full picture of your candidate.

Automatic Group Assessment Invites

You can now save additional time in your hiring workflows by setting up automatic group assessment invites!

When a candidate reaches the group assessment stage, they will be invited automatically and asked to book any session that still has space. You'll still find results on the candidate's profile, just like before.

We'll also give you a heads up if an assessment has run out of upcoming sessions!


Jobs

Build the Hiring Team in the Requisition

Whoever raises a requisition can now choose who fills each hiring team role, like Sourcer or Interviewer, right from the start. Approvers can tweak the choices if needed, and once the requisition becomes a job, everyone's added in their role automatically.

Multi-Signer Offer Letters

🔒 This is an early access feature. Get in touch with your CSM to enable it.

Need more than one signature on an offer? No problem.

Create a multi-signer offer and watch as the offer goes to each person in turn. You can keep an eye on progress from the offers table, and as soon as the last person signs, the offer is accepted and the signed PDF is attached for you.

Organic Job Boards Status

All job board information is now in one place. You can easily view every organic job board a job is posted to, along with the status of each posting.

User-Friendly LinkedIn Errors

🔒 This feature is not enabled by default. Get in touch with our Support team to enable it.

Having trouble with posting a job to LinkedIn?

We wanted to help, so we've added friendly LinkedIn error explanations to the platform, because the quicker you can get these issues fixed, the sooner you go back to what you do best - hiring.

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